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17th century Wales, Wales, Tenby, Devereux Hammond, Farthing, 1668, mm. cinquefoil, devervx·hammond around date, cinquefoil flanked by pellets above and below, rev. in·tinby··, dhb, cinquefoil stops, 0.27g/3h (Hancock, SCMB 1988, pp.78-9; SCMB 1990, p.47, this piece; Boon –; D –). Fine and clear, extremely rare; the better of the two known specimens [other in the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, acquired 1987] (£300-500)

Provenance:
P. Preston-Morley Collection [bt Paramount, March 1976].

Devereux Hammond (†March 1720), mercer; wife’s name Barbara. He was the son of David Hammond who, as mayor of Tenby in 1642, had claimed the town for Parliament on the outbreak of the Civil War. The token issuer was one of Tenby’s most prominent citizens in the second half of the seventeenth century, serving as mayor in 1664, 1671, 1679 and 1691. Documents bearing his signature survive in the National Library of Wales and Tenby Museum. Sold with a copy of the article ‘Welsh 17th Century Tokens: some Tenby notes’ by Edward Besly, and Preston-Morley’s letter in reply